Yes, and if you go a bit further with that Putin says he makes the same kind of memory lapses and has banged his head:
Just trying to appeal to our sense of humanity and relational empathy [Relational empathy is also a habit of behavior in which three relations are experienced: the relations of feeling into, feeling with, and feeling for. A "relation" is a mode or manner in which we connect with other persons or things.]
Forgetting his mass killings and torture - fuck him.